New Effort to Help Students Lose Weight

Submitted by Doug Lederman on February 22, 2010 - 3:00am

Amid growing public discussion[1] of the colleges should play in promoting healthy weight goals for students, Temple University is starting a controlled experiment on techniques designed to help students lose weight, The Philadelphia Inquirer[2]reported. Temple officials say that they are designing their program to reflect particular issues -- such as minimal or irregular sleep, unusual work schedules, and so forth -- that are normal for many students but make weight control difficult.